The New Yorker published an article yesterday that outlines reports of inappropriate behavior by Moore at the Gadsden Mall in the early ’80s. Two of the women in the Post story said they first met the former judge at the mall, and that several other women who used to work there remember him being a frequent presence.

From The New Yorker:

This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore campaign was not answered.) Several of them asked that I leave their names out of this piece. The stories that they say they’ve heard for years have been swirling online in the days since the Postpublished its report. “Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls,” the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.) Teresa Jones, a deputy district attorney for Etowah County in the early eighties, told CNN last week that “it was common knowledge that Roy dated high-school girls.” Jones told me that she couldn’t confirm the alleged mall banning, but said, “It’s a rumor I’ve heard for years.”

Two police officers, who wished to remain unnamed, said they had heard about Moore’s unwanted presence at the mall.

“The general knowledge at the time when I moved here was that this guy is a lawyer cruising the mall for high-school dates,” said one.

“I heard from one girl who had to tell the manager of a store at the mall to get Moore to leave her alone,” the other said.

“A friend of mine told me he was banned from there,” he said, adding, “I actually voted for Moore. I liked him at one time. But I’m basically disgusted now, to be honest with you.”